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<blockquote data-quote="Grateful" data-source="post: 1620824" data-attributes="member: 438800"><p>Thanks, it does help! I have been drinking lemon juice too, apparently it is important to get enough citric acid. I had already eliminated the spinach, and greatly increased fluid intake. Now I am giving up the nuts and hoping for the best. My last stone was a nasty piece of work and produced pain, in three separate places, as it passed through, over a period of three weeks. It was about 6mm (quarter of an inch) and shard-like so it is not surprising it was painful.</p><p></p><p>My diet is quite similar to yours except I eat a lot! Probably more than in my pre-diagnosis days, although obviously the food is completely different. Recently I have been losing weight again, probably because of a combination of stress/illness passing that kidney stone, and then giving up nuts, upon which I was snacking liberally all day. I am trying to replace them with olives and more cheese.</p><p></p><p>My understanding of how kidney stones form is that what matters is the <em>proportion</em> of calcium and oxalate in your diet, rather than the absolute quantities. I have been taking a daily calcium supplement pill (because of a history of bone fractures) so I wondered whether that was the "culprit" but apparently there is nothing wrong with calcium, or oxalate, per se -- it is just a question of not getting them out of whack with each other.</p><p></p><p>But all of the above is based on what I read online. I will see if the kidney doctor has anything additional to say when I see him next month. They are doing an ultrasound, although I am not sure what that reveals (when I had my first kidney stone, the ultrasound was negative for ks; they only confirmed it with a CAT scan of all things).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Grateful, post: 1620824, member: 438800"] Thanks, it does help! I have been drinking lemon juice too, apparently it is important to get enough citric acid. I had already eliminated the spinach, and greatly increased fluid intake. Now I am giving up the nuts and hoping for the best. My last stone was a nasty piece of work and produced pain, in three separate places, as it passed through, over a period of three weeks. It was about 6mm (quarter of an inch) and shard-like so it is not surprising it was painful. My diet is quite similar to yours except I eat a lot! Probably more than in my pre-diagnosis days, although obviously the food is completely different. Recently I have been losing weight again, probably because of a combination of stress/illness passing that kidney stone, and then giving up nuts, upon which I was snacking liberally all day. I am trying to replace them with olives and more cheese. My understanding of how kidney stones form is that what matters is the [I]proportion[/I] of calcium and oxalate in your diet, rather than the absolute quantities. I have been taking a daily calcium supplement pill (because of a history of bone fractures) so I wondered whether that was the "culprit" but apparently there is nothing wrong with calcium, or oxalate, per se -- it is just a question of not getting them out of whack with each other. But all of the above is based on what I read online. I will see if the kidney doctor has anything additional to say when I see him next month. They are doing an ultrasound, although I am not sure what that reveals (when I had my first kidney stone, the ultrasound was negative for ks; they only confirmed it with a CAT scan of all things). [/QUOTE]
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